With graduation around the corner, professor emeritus Robert Reich (rbreich) finds optimism in students’ future ahead of his upcoming speech as this year’s commencement speaker—drawing on America’s long history of resilience and the idealism and energy of its young people. “I think the country is enormously resilient. We have been through terrible times before. We always seem to learn something. And I’m especially optimistic because of the young people whom I have taught for over 40 years, almost 20 of them at Berkeley. The real difference is that students today are more diverse, more interesting. I think they’re smarter.” – Robert Reich, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Full interview linked in bio: bit.ly/4nj7YDB #UCBerkeley #RobertReich #Commencement #CalGrad